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Table 1 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

From: Barriers and facilitators of health among older adult immigrants in the United States: an integrative review of 20 years of literature

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Peer-reviewed articles, including quantitative, qualitative, reviews, and conceptual articles

• Published between January of 2000 and February 7th of 2021

• Specific to, or included, the United States

• Focused on health, or a health facilitating factor such as social service provision

• Focused on a health, or a barrier to health, such as lack of transportation

• Focused solely on, or included, older adults

• Focused on immigrants or refugees

• Non-peer reviewed papers, such as theses and dissertations

• Commentaries

• Opinion pieces

• Instrument validation

• Educational guides (ex: exercise curriculum, or on pedagogy for teaching students about older adult immigrants.)

• Not specific to older adults

• Not specific to immigrants or refugees

• Specific to minority US-born citizens. For example, older adult Latinos born in the U.S

• If the article focused solely on the caregivers of older adult immigrants but did not include the older adult immigrants

• Specific to Puerto Ricans moving from the island of Puerto Rico to the continental US

• Clinical practice recommendations

• Specific to return migration